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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2019
Zscaler, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abhinav Bansal, San Jose, CA (US);
Zscaler, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for security and control of Internet of Things (IOT) and ZeroConf devices using cloud services. The present disclosure uses an application that runs on a user device in a promiscuous mode to look for potentially vulnerable and compromised machines on the local network. Specifically, the user device can fingerprint ZeroConf and IOT networks based on their static and dynamic behavior. The application discovers all hosts on the network and uses a cloud service such as via a cloud-based system to detect potentially malicious IOTs with known vulnerabilities. Based on an enterprise policy or user's preferences, the solution can alert if any IOT device tries to communicate with the user's device or if the user's device itself broadcasts services running on the device such as screen sharing/file sharing.